a sold out performance of russia's first broadway style musical "northeast." svetlana is celebrating with her american fiance and her 13-year-old daughter. the first act ends. nothing out of the ordinary. >> translator: then the second half started, and right around this time i saw -- no heard the gunshot and saw a man dressed in camouflage getting on the stage. >> the theater's house camera captures the first startling moments of what will turn out to be a four-day siege. a masked man shooting wildly into the air, the 850 theater goers don't know whether it's part of the show or something else. >> translator: i looked around and saw groups of armed men walking along the aisles on both sides. >> the terrorists are filming amateur video, which shows women strapped with what they claim to be bombs, lining the theater aisles, waiting for the command to detonate. their leader, a notorious commander, takes the stage. >> translator: boria behaves like a conquerer and announced from the stage that this was a siege and they demanded the war to come to an end. >> at th